Name: Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict
Price: 90.00 GBP
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Author: William H. Boothby
ISBN: 9780191044151

Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

by William H. Boothby 2020-07-09 03:22:32

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Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discusses the factors influencing future developments in weapons law. After relating thehistorical evolution of weapons law, the book discusses the important customary principles that are the foundation of the subject, and provides a condensed account of the law that exists on the use of weapons. The treaties and customary rules applying to particular categories of weapon arethereafter listed and explained article by article and rule by rule in a series of chapters.Having stated the law as it is, the book then explores the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. The legal review of weapons is discussed, both from the perspective of how such reviews should be undertaken and how such a system should beestablished. Having stated the law as it is, the book then investigates the way in which this dynamic field of international law develops in the light of various influences. In the final chapter, the prospects for future rule change are considered.This Second Edition includes a discussion of new treaty law on expanding bullets, the arms trade, and norms in relation to biological and chemical weapons. It also analyses the International Manuals on air and missile warfare law and on cyber warfare law, the challenges posed by ''lethal autonomousweapon systems'', and developments in the field of information and telecommunications otherwise known as cyber activities. Less

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